| If the author of this post had spent a few minutes looking into what functionality the Watch had before purchasing it, he could've had a much different experience. This reads like the complaints of someone who didn't quite know what they were buying. >I bought the Apple Watch yesterday, and yesterday is the keyword. How come I didn’t run yesterday? Thanks for asking, in fact I did run, but yesterday I couldn’t stream music because I had no apps. The exact feature is described as "Stream 40 million songs with Apple Music right from your wrist". It's also clearly described on Apple's home page as "Coming Soon". Of course there are no streaming music apps like Spotify or Soundcloud yet. Apple's own music platform isn't even ready. I don't agree with Apple's approach of releasing a watch and announcing software or features that aren't readily available at launch, but I'm not going to then say "wait where is music streaming?" if I buy one before the feature is released. What he could've done, given some patience, was sync a playlist of songs to the watch. It's had that functionality since day one. >In summary, $432.92 for the Apple Watch Series 3 GPS + Cellular, $99 for the Apple Developer Program, $10/mo for Verizon, and $9.99/mo for Apple Music. I feel it’s a bit too much for just streaming music while I run, I’m happy to just go with a non-cellular watch and some music pre-downloaded. The author is being misleading. The developer program isn't required, this is the price the author paid for being impatient. The rest of the costs are required for music, but cellular functionality != music streaming. It has other uses. >I have to unlock the door, climb like 20 steps — it’s plenty of time to connect to the wifi. Then I have to take off my headphones before my sweaty t-shirt, so it would be great to just switch the current song to the living room airplay system, so that there’d be no interruption. I couldn’t do it, and don’t understand why switching between bluetooth and wifi shouldn’t just work Wearable tech is hard. I'm sure a device with a bigger battery and more powerful hardware could do this, but it's a small piece of wearable tech on your wrist. Give it time. (I can see why this wouldn't be a feature right now since AirPlay is direct streaming and it'd likely mean users burn through their battery as they stream music to their speakers from their watch). >On the bright side, earlier today I went grocery shopping, turned my iPhone in airplane mode, and paid with just the watch. For spending more money, the Apple Watch works great. Apple Pay is great on the watch. It also doesn't need cellular data, you can use Apple Pay without an iPhone present on any Apple Watch.[1] I personally have a Series 1 that I use when I go for a run, I leave my iPhone at home. I have a playlist of music synced. I'm happy with my watch and don't have any need for GPS or cellular for the time being. Syncing a playlist of music works fine for me. [1] https://www.macworld.com/article/2916821/what-can-your-apple... |